Many of you know that my daughter has a line of designer skivv . . . uh, skirties, and is also willing to explain to you what skirties are exactly, and why you need them. She has just started up a blog, the better to do that with, and you can find it here.
When God Doesn”t Appear to Want to Wake Up
Last Lord’s Day the message was on Psalm 44, and you can find it here.
Fifth Decade of Psalms/Psalm 45
INTRODUCTION: Psalm 45 is an Epithalamium, which is to say, a wedding song. The way it is quoted in the New Testament makes it very clear that the ultimate fulfillment of this psalm is found in the marriage of Christ to the Church. This psalm is unlike any other, and is likely the wedding hymn …
Palin Comparison
Like many others, I will be watching Sarah Palin’s speech with great interest tonight. With that event coming up, here are just a few bits and pieces of leftover punditry that I found lying around the house here. 1. The barrage that has been unleashed against her means that the left is in a deep …
Making Karl Rove Look Like a Piker
Just to keep things interesting, we now read this. Sarah Palin and her husband were at one time members of the Alaska Independence Party, a party that stands for secession from the US of A, among other things. This story just keeps getting better and better. Why that should be controversial, I surely don’t know. …
Web-Based Grading
As the new school year starts up, let me take a brief moment for a product plug. New St. Andrews is testdriving a new college management system (for grades, attendance, communications, and more). The old system we had generally made work for me instead of working for me. If you are a college looking for …
John Knox and Sarah Palin
One quick niggling contextualizing comment off to the side. John Knox’s famous missive, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, has been mentioned a couple times in the comments of this discussion about Sarah Palin. John Knox wrote the booklet, aiming it at Bloody Mary, a vicious persecutor of the …
And Another Thing . . .
Since I posted the cons and pros post below, I found out about the out-of-wedlock pregnancy of Sarah Palin’s teenaged daughter. Some of the things I wrote apply to this in principle (Con #1 and Pro #3), but please allow just a few quick takes on this new twist. Obviously, there will have to be …
Almost Forgot to Post the Next Chapter
Here go.
Cons and Pros on Palin
I am continuing in the mode of thinking out loud about all of this. I have appreciated many of the comments, pro and con, for the most part, and so please continue the discussion. It would probably be good, though, to discontinue passing on the bat crap “research” that the desperate left is coming up …